{"product_id":"pure-narco-jesse-fink-and-luis-navia-2020","title":"Pure Narco. Jesse Fink and Luis Navia. 2020.","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor twenty-five years Cuban-American Luis Antonio Navia smuggled hundreds of tons of cocaine for the biggest cartels in Colombia and Mexico, including Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat made him good at his job was amassing trusted contacts, losing very few shipments of coke, and maintaining a low profile. He refused to carry a weapon. He also maintained a normal family life with a Columbian wife and two young children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut he was never far removed from the most brutal violence. One friend got his head cut off. Another was hit over the head, stuffed in a 200-litre drum full of cement and dumped in a canal. Navia himself was kidnapped three times and went close to being fed alive to crocodiles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomehow through it all he managed to survive and spent two decades fooling law-enforcement agencies until he came under the radar of the 12-nation Operation Journey, one of the biggest antinarcotics takedowns of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Browse Books","offers":[{"title":"Large paperback \/ 9780143796275","offer_id":40510190190674,"sku":"FINK1","price":9.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2696\/2492\/files\/73BED145-4435-4884-AB60-AD88BC9CE92F.jpg?v=1789789482","url":"https:\/\/browsebooks.com.au\/products\/pure-narco-jesse-fink-and-luis-navia-2020","provider":"Browse Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}